Does Tesla Have An Unhealthy Work Environment OR Are The Unions Working Their Magic? U.S. Labor Board Files Complaint...

Unions talk crap and their shills play the victim for emotional blackmail and shazaam you have workers raped by the union. Right to work needs to be the law in all 50 states. Unions should NEVER be allowed to force membership on workers. To do so is immoral.

Sorry Matt - but this has NOTHING to do with Unions. I note that nothing about a Union is even mentioned above

Tesla employees sign a confidentiality agreement - BUT - it even prevents them from reporting safety issues and problems, which is wrong. IF there is a safety problem - they should at least have the ability to report it to the NLRB. AND in this case - when employees cited the agreement in refusing to answer question posed by the NLRB - the NLRB filed a complaint.

A safety problem could be something as small as not having adequate First Aid supplies (Which are legally required) - to maybe a too glossy floor causing problems with slipping. Correcting these things should be a high priority - as often correcting safety issues reduces downtime due to injury.

The ability to report safety violations should not be part of the contract - and in many states is against the law anyway.

AS far as your opinions on Unions - we already know you are an Alt-right person - and so that is not a surprise.

Unions had their purpose in the past, they are less relevant today and tend to reward bad workers while holding back exceptional ones (at least in education). Agree unions should never be mandatory.

Also, from what I understand the agreement is pretty standard for Silicon Valley companies and does not prevent workers from reporting safety-related issues, just internal process stuff. Tesla open sourced their patents, so they rely on "trade secrets". Coke-a-Cola was never patented, the recipe is a trade secret and you can rest assured any Coke employees working in the plant are signing the exact same type of agreement.

There is no explicit wording in the contract preventing safety complaints, the unions are making assumptions to create more buzz for their desire to unionize. I would be surprised if the case is not quickly thrown out. I'm also curious for the latest round of safety stats... it was really bad in 2015, less bad in 2016, then exceptional in Q1 2017. Hopefully they maintained the rating for Q2 and now Q3.

@TomM It's way way way too early to be that drunk on your Jack Daniels at this point in the day.

Anyone with common sense and logic--and I know that does not apply to you because you're a socialist-fascist, Neo-Nazi Liberal--knows that discussion of "unhealthy work environment" is the BS unions use to get their foot in the door. This IS most decidedly about union encroachment.

The workers at Tesla are fully protected under the law. Unions happened when there were no laws to protect workers. We now have those laws to protect workers and do not need your buddies at the union cash raping hard-working Americans.

Stunning. I agree with Darringer again.

Clearly your antipsychotic medicines are working.

The fantasy that never dies: That unions are powerful. (Runner up: That they're bad for the economy.)

They are powerful and they are bad for the economy. Those are both easy to prove.